About three months ago, in his annual address to the nation and the parliament, Alexander Lukashenko paid special attention to the problem of alcohol abuse population of Belarus. According to the president, people suffering from alcoholism, must be forced to "treat" work therapy. "I am convinced that the best boozer – education through labor", – said the head of state.

Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on April 2, which has appointed new leaders of Internal Affairs of Minsk and Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. According to the press service of the President, Major General Viktor Senko police released from the post of Chief of Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk City Executive Committee and appointed head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. In turn, major general of militia Igor Evseev released from the post of Chief of the Department of Internal Affairs of Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and appointed head of the Department of Internal Affairs of Minsk City Executive Committee.

In 2014, the list of cities with the largest emissions of pollutants into the air from stationary sources traditionally topped Navapolack (52,000 tons). Followed Minsk (23,000 tons), Hrodna (10,000 tons) and Novalukoml (8,000 tons).

Salaries of employees of February 1, 77 companies have not paid the Vitebsk region, according to the National Statistics Committee. Among the debtors to employees - of "Classic fashion industry", JSC "Banner of industrialization", combine silk plant "Evistar" enterprise computing and information science (Vitebsk), Haradok flax, the company "Sweet Country" (Orsha), JSC "Kuptsov "(Glubokoe), a number of agricultural enterprises in the areas of the region.

The head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate BOC) urged the peoples of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine to seek "spiritual unity". This was Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavsky, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus Paul said in his Christmas message.